Dr.LeslieOBGYN said:Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
Dr.PeteFamMed said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
I read this differently from Dr.PeteFamMed, on substance rather than tone. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne concrete data point for the thread. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.